I'm pretty new to the idea of the Fediverse and Federation in general. I recently signed up for Mastodon to participate in the Podcast Index Community. Mastodon is built on top of a protocol ActivityPub, which seems pretty straightforward. I recently hopped on a Zoom call...
I have a bunch of saved searches on eBay looking for interesting things. One of those things is "Living Videotext". Today my latest addition, a copy of ThinkTank 128 arrived. Still need ThinkTank 512, Ready, and MORE. My ThinkTank Collection Later that year we released...
Just read Developing better developers it sounds like a great idea. I think a similar idea could also be bootstrapped outside of universities. Something that combines an open-source project with a meetup group. Senior devs can teach and work with the junior devs for the benefit...
This morning I read Philosophy in re RSS 2.0 My favorite quote was from Sean Gallagher "I mean, here we are, a country on the edge of being dragged into a war by some whack-job Texan with the IQ of a Post-It Note (TM), and people are badgering each other over RDF?" I...
Interesting timing. I've been talking to Dave lately about nodeEditor and how things worked in Frontier. Then I opened Instapaper today and was scanning through pages I had bookmarked to read later and came across a How Frontier got started which had an attached podcast that was...
My site has been a blog since at least 2006. It literally uses the blog subdomain. I don't know how much I like that anymore. End of last year, I changed the homepage from a list of posts to a more curated experience inspired by Derek Sivers, including a Now page. Joel Hooks...
When I was in high school and early college, I suffered from depression. Since then, I've relapsed from time to time but overall have been much better. Currently, a lot of people are struggling with mental health. Between the fear of COVID-19 and self-isolation, people are...
My daughter started 4K back in September. This school year is her first year going to elementary school. When I'm visiting her classroom for conferences and such, I'm overwhelmed by feelings of nostalgia. The classrooms, although not 100% like what I remember, have things like...
Today I was in a class learning about Kinvey and my instructor was stuck on a problem in a node.js app he was working on. He wanted to use map on an array of rows but pass an additional parameter to the callback. I knew that one way to handle that was with bind like...
I'm working on several projects right now that I'd like to be able to generate logs from. The problem is that logging isn't required for the code to work, so how do I configure it? I see three possibilities: Required in Constructor use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface; class MyClass...